I was at a real estate seminar and a CPA said “talk with your attorney about difference between equity partners which are not regulated under SEC REG D rules, vs. pooling investor funds to raise funds, an activity whi...

99% of the respondents will select 1031 exchange. If you know me very well, you know I march to the beat of a different drummer. I also like to play the contrarian.If I decided to part with one of my 150 unit apartmen...

Hey Everyone! My name is Chris, I'm 29 and my background is a LITTLE BIT outside of Real Estate. I have been in the Information/Cyber Security world for the past 8 years. My original major prior to Computer Science wa...

So I got a phone call from a tenant who is six months into a one year lease, she is moving in with a boy friend.Lease has an early termination fee of two month's rent.  I am holding a security deposit and last month's...

Hello All, New Member With A Question,I'm hoping to tap the collective wisdom about our situation.  We (myself and spouse) are relatively new to landlording, say between 1-2 years (5+ years if you include renting to f...

I recently had someone tell me that you have to pay transfer taxes when you assign a contract. Is this true?

I've done contract assignments and have never paid any transfer tax. In my mind, there is no transfer of o...

We had a tenant just vacate without leaving a forwarding address. They also didn't even attempt to clean and have exhausted their security deposit to the extent that they owe us money. They owe $2500 more than their s...

I'm under contract with a park that has mostly new tenants renting park-owned homes with the Option to buy in 10 year time span (10 moved in 2016 and 12 in 2017 which are on 1-year leases), 8 are long time tenants, 6 ...

I obtained a signed pre-approval from a lender for a short-term rental (STR) investment at 80% LTV. This pre-approval was specifically tailored for the STR investment I had in mind. However, shortly after securing the...

Scenario:
- Fully stabilized retail center. "Shadow-anchored," meaning the Target or Costco building isn't included with the purchase, but it shares a parking lot or similar. In other words the subject property owner...